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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 82 avhandlingar innehållade orden cognitive linguistics.
16. Participating in a Story: Exploring Audience Cognition
Sammanfattning : Stories that the audience can influence (such as computer games and other interactive multimedia), in contrast to 'traditional' stories (such as books and cinema), present a challenge to fields which take narrative (story) as their study object. What is the difference between these two kinds of stories? Earlier theories have focused on differences in media, structure, or the audience's physical actions. LÄS MER
17. Judging the Immigrant : Accents and Attitudes
Sammanfattning : Spoken language as a means of communication contains huge amounts of information apart from the linguistic message that is conveyed. It is often the first channel of interaction between people and based on the speaker’s manner of talk, we create a mental image of the speaker as a person, of the speaker’s background, origin and personal qualities. LÄS MER
18. The Language Of Space : The Acquisition And Interpretation of Spatial Adpositions In English
Sammanfattning : This thesis by publication presents a study on English adpositions (e.g. to, in, at, from, in frontof, through). LÄS MER
19. Implementing Cognitive Semantics
Sammanfattning : This book is about how concepts are structured and processed. It is based on the findings in cognitive linguistics over the last decade, where thorough studies have been made about how concepts function. Concepts appear as image schemata, a spatial form of representation with very powerful properties. LÄS MER
20. Language and Literacy : Some fundamental issues in research on reading and writing
Sammanfattning : Mainstream research on reading and writing is based on the assumption, common in modern linguistics, that spoken language is primary to written language in most important respects. Unfortunately, the conceptual framework for the study of language and 'literacy' (encompassing both reading and writing skills) is built around this assumption. LÄS MER